Author: Lammert Hilarides

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre developed this new water dataset in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. This maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 32 years and provides statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces. https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/

The system consist of maps and system software. To the GW-II system software will belong 3 components, a remote sensing component for tasks like satellite image pre-processing, land use/land cover classification, change detection, a GIS component e.g for the indicator computation and a Web-GIS component for the permanent access to the maps and information dataRead more about GlobWetland II[…]

The Global Mangrove Watch is an international project, which was initiated in 2011, as part of JAXA’s Kyoto and Carbon (K&C) Initiative and aims to: Generate revised baseline maps of mangrove extent in the tropics and subtropics for 2010 and 2015. Map changes relative to existing pan-tropical and subtropical mangrove baseline data sets using mid-1990’sRead more about Global Mangrove Watch[…]